Russia on the Eve of Modernity, Heretz

Автор: Bushkovitch, Paul
Название: A Concise History of Russia. Cambridge University Press, СОЕДИНЕННОЕ КОРОЛЕВСТВО, 2011
ISBN: 0521543231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521543231
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Accessible to students and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes recent enormous changes in the understanding of Russian history, giving equal weight to each time period discussed.

Автор: Josephson
Название: An Environmental History of Russia
ISBN: 0521689724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521689724
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Based on original research and firsthand accounts, this book contains dynamic debates between party officials, scientists and citizens about how best to use the great natural and mineral resources of the USSR and the impact Soviet programs had on the empire`s extensive biodiversity and numerous citizens.

Автор: Graham Loren R.
Название: Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete?
ISBN: 0262019795 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262019798
Издательство: MIT Press
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An expert investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by commercial failure and points to new opportunities to break the pattern.

When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, Russia is economically dependent on gas and oil. In Lonely Ideas, Loren Graham investigates Russia's long history of technological invention followed by failure to commercialize and implement.

For three centuries, Graham shows, Russia has been adept at developing technical ideas but abysmal at benefiting from them. From the seventeenth-century arms industry through twentieth-century Nobel-awarded work in lasers, Russia has failed to sustain its technological inventiveness. Graham identifies a range of conditions that nurture technological innovation: a society that values inventiveness and practicality; an economic system that provides investment opportunities; a legal system that protects intellectual property; a political system that encourages innovation and success. Graham finds Russia lacking on all counts. He explains that Russia's failure to sustain technology, and its recurrent attempts to force modernization, reflect its political and social evolution and even its resistance to democratic principles.

But Graham points to new connections between Western companies and Russian researchers, new research institutions, a national focus on nanotechnology, and the establishment of Skolkovo, "a new technology city." Today, he argues, Russia has the best chance in its history to break its pattern of technological failure.

Автор: Fung
Название: The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity
ISBN: 1107547679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547674
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions.

Автор: Mironov Boris N
Название: The Standard of Living and Revolutions in Imperial Russia, 1700-
ISBN: 0415608546 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415608541
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Routledge is proud to publish the first full-scale anthropometric history of Imperial Russia; Mirinov mobilizes an immense volume of archival material to chart chart how the standard of living in Russia changed over slightly more than two centuries.

Автор: Edited by Maureen Perrie
Название: The Cambridge History of Russia: Vol.1: From Rus` to 1989
ISBN: 0521812275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521812276
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Описание: This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. It surveys the development of Russia through the Mongol invasions to the expansion of the Muscovite state in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and deals with political, social, economic and cultural issues under the Riurikid and early Romanov rulers. The volume is organised on a primarily chronological basis, but a number of general themes are also addressed, including the bases of political legitimacy; law and society; the interactions of Russians and non-Russians; and the relationship of the state with the Orthodox Church. The international team of authors incorporates the latest Russian and Western scholarship and offers an authoritative new account of the formative 'pre-Petrine' period of Russian history, before the process of Europeanisation had made a significant impact on society and culture.

Автор: Hahn Barbara
Название: The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
ISBN: 0691171475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691171470
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"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century?

This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schuler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed--with its inherent patterns of exclusion. This is a book about hope and despair, possibilities and preventions. We see attempts at dialogue between Christians and Jews, men and women, "Germans" and "Jews," attempts initiated by these women that, for the most part, remained unanswered. Finally, the book reconstructs the changing notions of the "Jewess," a key word in modern German history with its connotations of "salons," "beauty," and "esprit." And yet a word that is also disastrous, in which there culminated everything the dominant culture condemned as dangerous."

Автор: Hong Young-Sun
Название: Welfare, Modernity, and the Weimar State
ISBN: 069160102X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691601021
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Описание: This is the first comprehensive study of the turbulent relationship among state, society, and church in the making of the modern German welfare system during the Weimar Republic. Young-Sun Hong examines the competing conceptions of poverty, citizenship, family, and authority held by the state bureaucracy, socialists, bourgeois feminists, and the ma

Автор: Denning Andrew
Название: Skiing Into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History
ISBN: 0520284283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520284289
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Описание: Tells the story of how skiing moved from Europe`s Scandinavian periphery to the mountains of central Europe, where it came to define the modern Alps and set the standard for skiing across the world. This book aims to explore intersections between work, tourism, leisure, development, environmental destruction, urbanism, and more.

Автор: Blanshard
Название: Sex - Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
ISBN: 1405122919 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781405122917
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Описание: Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines theimpact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had onmodern Western culture.

Автор: Hershatter, Gail
Название: Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
ISBN: 0520204395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520204393
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Описание: Drawn from the daughters and wives of the working poor and declasse elites, prostitutes in Shanghai were near the bottom of class and gender hierarchies. This title examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century.

Автор: Kim Michael
Название: Mass Dictatorship and Modernity
ISBN: 1137304324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137304322
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Mass Dictatorship and Modernity is the second volume in the `Mass Dictatorship` series. A transnational, academic research venture, it interrogates mass dictatorship in a broad historical context, focusing on the emergence of modernity through interactions of center and periphery, empire and colony, and democracy and dictatorship on a global scale.